Prerequisites

Candidates for this exam should:

Red Hat recommends that candidates for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Ansible Automation exam (EX407) have taken Automation with Ansible I (DO407) or have equivalent experience working with Ansible to configure systems.

Course Content

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam. Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance.

Candidates should have the following skills and abilities:

Understand core components of Ansible

Inventories

Modules

Variables

Facts

Plays

Playbooks

Configuration files

Run ad-hoc Ansible commands

Use both static and dynamic inventories to define groups of hosts

Create Ansible plays and playbooks

Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules

Use variables to retrieve the results of running a commands

Use conditionals to control play execution

Configure error handling

Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state

Create and use templates to create customized configuration files for hosts